Alternative Approach Quotes

I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.

It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.

If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I did the opposite? Don't follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

I think a lot of police procedurals are very conventional. With the stuff I'm doing, I'm trying to approach the institution of the police in a different way.

I try to examine everything to see if there's another approach.

Now we have to hit them from a different angle.

Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place. Trust your demon.

I always have a different way of looking at things.

I like to skate on the other side of the ice.

When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise another approach.

You can't move the sun, and you can't even move the tracks, so you have to do something else to better light the engines.

I always tell my critics that if they don't like this theory for helping people - come up with a better one and I'll use it.

You know, I hate to borrow Apple's tag, but think different. Really. From the very beginning. I didn't know what the fast-food rules were. I got my training at the Culinary Institute Of America, and then I opened up a fast food place according to fine dining rules.

Sometimes, you just have to realize, I'm not doing stuff that is really mainstream stuff, and to try and put it out in a mainstream way is almost psychotic.

The idea behind the Anti Tour was people asking me how I would top the 'Aphrodite' tour... I thought the best option was to go completely the other way. I always tried to be that way - sometimes it works and sometimes you fall flat on your face.

It is not too late to take another path.

I'm coming from a place where I have seen a different way to handle it, or a slightly different way to go through what is happening, that gives me some perspective. So I think it always helps. It always helps to have someone who has traveled the world or seen a different way to do something. That helps give you perspective.

If i had to do it all over again? Why not, I would do it a little bit differently.

Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach.

I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

Sometimes people will find things that are wrong. Sometimes they will even find an approach that you took wrong. If you think you took the right approach, then you just absorb the criticism, but you don't change your mind.

Many times I can see a solution to something differently and quicker than other people. I see the end zone and say 'This is where I want to go.'

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

I'm interested in what's new. I'm interested in change. I'm interested in a different game in life.

I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I think that's the difference.